Nuclear Medicine Exam 2026 Questions and Answers

Nuclear Medicine Exam 2026 Questions
and Answers

Nuclear Medicine demonstrates: - Correct answer-function

Nuclear Medicine is under the radiology umbrella because: - Correct answer-

radiation is used

Types of radiation used for conventional radiography - Correct answer-Alpha,

Beta, Particulate, Ionizing

Types of radiation used for nuclear medicine - Correct answer-Gamma Rays,

Nonparticulate

Source of radiation for conventional radiography - Correct answer-x-ray tube

Source of radiation for nuclear medicine - Correct answer-patient

Equipment used for conventional radiography - Correct answer-x-ray tube and

image receptor

Equipment used for nuclear medicine - Correct answer-gamma camera and

computer
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, Conventional radiography images show: - Correct answer-anatomical area

Nuclear medicine images show: - Correct answer-area that picked up

radionuclides, hot and cold areas

Year Bequerel discovered radioactivity - Correct answer-1896

Becquerel discovered: - Correct answer-naturally occuring radioactive substances

Year of Curies discovery - Correct answer-1898

Curie discovered: - Correct answer-polonium and radium, radioactive and

radioactivity

1923 - Correct answer-Georg de Hevesy developed the tracer principle

Father of Nuclear Medicine - Correct answer-Georg de Hevesy

1931 - Correct answer-Lawrence invented the cyclotron

cyclotron - Correct answer-makes regular atoms into radionuclides

1946 - Correct answer-Fermi developed nuclear reactors

1958 - Correct answer-Anger developed the gamma camera

tracer - Correct answer-radioactive material added to a radionuclide so that it will

be picked up by certain areas in the body


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